Act of Defiance
...The pain you wish to inflict,
Is your quandary as I resist.
Grovel, you demand with hate.
But my resolve hardens and will not abate.
You capture my past for all to see.
But you don't re...
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Categories:
angerly, anti bullying, bullying, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
angerly, animal, dog,
Form: Haiku
Songs of Hope
...Songs of hope ring out this night
People gathered under street lamps
Naming those who have died
In United States led detention camps
We now hear how much they lied
Our bowed heads with many te...
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Categories:
angerly, america, angst, humanity, rights,
Form: Rhyme
Please Sleep Some More
...Please, my darling, please sleep some more.
You're tired and your muscles are sore.
Can't wear the same face that you wore
Yesterday at work, at meetings.
Sleep well so you smile with greetings...
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Categories:
angerly, cat, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
Skeleton Tree
...knobby tentacles
begging an angerly sky
dead by lightning bolt
©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
July 5, 2012...
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Categories:
angerly, nature,
Form: Haiku
Teetering Dream
...Cocooned beneath warm silky bedding
Soundly nestled in dream’s quiet moment
Neither purged from silence nor the chatter of an awaked world
My soul engulfed- now doth begin the teetering dream
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Categories:
angerly, loss,
Form: Free verse
Young Brother
...Street lights,
cast shadows of you,
in my eternal memories and mind.
As I watch you trod through,
the rough roads below,
strolling true,
with destiny and time.
Clinched fists,
compliment, ...
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Categories:
angerly, black african american, history,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My War Within
...Shards of metal pieces
Running through my veins
From the knife you used to stab me
Destruction's all you've gained
Bit by bit you've taken
Every ounce of who I am
And when I'm finally happy
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Categories:
angerly, angst, family, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Storms
...Ominous clouds
Circle in the dark sky
Alive
Swriling angerly above
Light, sound
Tremble in terror
The power of air...
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Categories:
angerly, nature,
Form: I do not know?